skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Militant left is as dangerous as militant right.

Yeah... The terrible dangers of universal healthcare and proportional taxes...
Mebendazole (functionally equivalent to albendazole, as I understand it) is 4 USD a tablet here in Ontario. So even with this you're still paying 3x as much.
I find it fascinating to wonder whether it's better to go permissive and risk Amazon "stealing" your work vs going copyleft and risk never getting big enough for Amazon to care. Even if Amazon is making 10x more money than your off your code, you might still be making more than you otherwise would, due to exposure. Anyone aware of any hard numbers/research on this?
GameStop’s surge is making it one of the most traded stocks in the U.S.
This was still often done in later VB. The Internet Transfer Control was often used by VB and VBA programmers to give their applications HTTP and FTP capability.
They've been accused of illegal logging in Romania[0], but they're very secretive about where they get their lumber from.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Possible_illegal_timber_i...
This lawsuit almost certainly lacks standing, so the can of worms gets re-closed quickly. The app store may or may not choose to remove other apps, but it's unlikely that it can be forced to just because they removed one particular app.

The difference is that Parler was conspicuous in promoting an obvious threat. It was aimed specifically at users who had already been kicked off other platforms for promoting misinformation which, if taken seriously, could only be seen as a call for violence. That same misinformation was being promoted at the highest levels. That's a very clear line that nobody else has yet crossed.

That doesn't resolve what to do about apps that have crossed some other lines and should probably come in for scrutiny. Probably by law enforcement -- the real problem here is that crimes have been ignored, and app stores don't want to take the blame for it. The app stores also ignore it until it becomes un-ignorable -- a line that becomes clear only after threats of violence become acts of violence.

It won't be resolved by a lawsuit that lacks standing. That can of worms will almost certainly be shut.
Show HN: Everything as a Service, a tongue in cheek SaaS idea generator
This is a toy project I spent an evening putting together just for fun. Hopefully it provides some amusement for you as well.
I remember my father used to listen to Dr. Laura every day on his commute. My father is every bit a Massachusetts progressive. He used to arrange his schedule to make sure he could hear things like Dr. Farrakhan's speech at the Million Man March. He'd read the Wall Street Journal and get frustrated.

I once asked why, and he said "It's important to know what other people think, even if they're wrong. Because every once in a while, you're the one who's wrong."
Comlink – RPC Library for WebWorkers
The only piece of advice I can give on this is that having entered the tech industry at the end of the desktop revolution and the dawn of the web. I left school for the money that was flowing, it was a smart move, but my regret was years later when I returned to school I naturally went right back into a technology based track. In hindsight I wish I would have went back Applied Mathematics, EE, ME, hell even Accounting something that would have broadened my horizons. There is no doubt that I learned a thing or two in CS, but I was already well entrenched in my career, it did not help me in the slightest from a career advancement prospective. It would have been time better spent broadening my horizons in a complementary study.
Maybe people would have less problems with "corporations are just groups of people working together" if the people of a corporation were ever held accountable.
I agree with the sentiment of your argument.

I also agree with OP that $24 billion is a ridiculous amount of money assuming it isn't mostly graft. If the oil company had to pay for this operation entirely with its own money, with bankruptcy-threatening fines for failure to comply with strict independent oversight, I bet they could do it for 10% of that cost.

This comment is purely speculation based on my loose understanding of corruption in the construction industry. I am not familiar with petroleum engineering and could be wrong as I am quite obviously guessing.
It's a long way from quarter of a million to Amazon.

How many people get quarter of a million in inheritance or have rich parents? It's silly to call out "self made" just because someone got a loan. Bezos did not inherit billions of dollars, he is a billionaire now. By any metric he is a self made billionaire.
It's not "social media", it's just "media". I dont expect the media to tell they are the problem, they are hypocrites anyway.
pets.com is next
Part of that is it was very very hard to know back then what was needed and what would work. Now a lot of the fundamentals are well hammered out and the big challenge for SpaceX was the landing not figuring out how to build rockets in the first place.

Also the ACA did have some successes in doing kind of what you're talking about. There were incentives in there to avoid readmittance before 30 days and to all appearances it's been a success.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/27/obamacare-success-penalt...
At 1000 engineers, that's a fulltime engineer to support the "ldap+gitlab community fork"...

Realistically that takes a lot less than a fulltime engineer to support.

Of course this assumes no other value is acquired from the license, but if we take the comment at face value it seems worthwhile to just add it yourself.
Also - Citron has already said that they will take this trade into account in how they allocate in the future. I don't think this will really change anything though.
I agree many options are bad. Even employer insurance is expensive.

Where is the individual's purchasing power a part of that scenario? Regardless of the group or person paying the provider, the bill is still substantial. The main money saver between the types is in system efficiencies like removing overhead, or instituting restrictions.
Most of them are from Github and other issue trackers such as Trac, Bugzilla.
The syntax is uglier, and it doesn't have anything like PyCharm. However, as a shell it's syntax lends itself to typing out on the command line. It does have this weird thing where you use lots of aliases to make things ergonomic on the command line, but tend to use the full name in the script. Example "ls" is "Get-Child-Item" and is usable on more than just directories.

What sets it apart IMHO is that it return records instead of just string so you can declare which fields you are interested in instead of trying to parse the string output with "cut"
Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
Thanks! It did make me think of Sun Tzu-styled wisdom, but I thought it may be some well-know phrase that was parodied here that I was not familiar with. In any case, the joke was great even without me getting this part!
The matching of orders for a single asset happens on one machine, call it matching engine. Matching is done based on price-time priority. Price is set by the trader, the time is set to the time the order was received by one of the order gateways sitting in front of the matching engine.

The order gateways' clocks are in sync, up to precision epsilon. So if you send two orders serially from same data center (to ignore effects of public Internet latencies and routing), and if they happen to be processed by different gateways, you still will see same ordering of your orders in matching engine, bar some cosmic ray events.

It is all commodity hardware running some flavor of Linux.

However this was couple years ago, they may be using ASICs and FPGAs now. The matching of orders for a single asset must still be done in single process otherwise you cannot guarantee price-time priority.
It's true. But also I consider Angular 2+ to be inferior to other similar frameworks. It was overengineered to no end had as much to do with Angular 1.x as a space shuttle has to do with a horse buggy. I remember looking at how they proposed to specify templates via `` template strings as part of the JS code, making their template language completely unreadable and thinking how that's such a step back in usability compared to how Angular 1.x did it, which was basically what Vue.js does.

And I do still have some scars that haven't fully healed from that transition. Look at Vue's evolution from 1.x to 2.x to 3.x. The new way to create components in Vue 3 is what Douglas Crockford proposed way back in like 2008. Except it's reasonably worse for code readability compared to Vue 2.x because it is completely unstructured. And at one point the Vue team was talking about taking out half the features that I routinely use in Vue 2.x such as $emit()/$on(), watchers, etc.

I don't have as much experience with React, but from what I understand they break compatibility much more frequently than Vue does. Plus, JSX is a very polarizing tech and I am firmly on the side that dislikes it.

Compare all of the above with a project like Django where backwards compatibility is maintained for years and developers consider it a big cost to break features. It's a much more carefully developed project and it makes running the code much easier. The template syntax has not changed in what, 10 years at least? In the meantime how many JS frameworks have we seen rise and fall? As far as I am concerned, every time a framework or library update breaks my application, the framework is imposing a cost on me. Adding new features and refining existing features? Fine. Breaking the world because someone didn't like how $emit()/$on() worked? That's like if the Linux kernel decided tomorrow to switch to using Windows syscalls because they got a Windows developer on the team.
The gin is pretty good value. I agree about the tequila.
>The company's pricing handbook states reassuringly that "when in doubt, we will default to moving features to a lower tier" but the effect of the change is that any features in Bronze that are not in the free tier have been moved up.

This means they have no doubt in this particular case.

I guess we also can doubtlessly deduce what to think then.
This could actually work pretty well. It would add more complexity to building parking lots, and possibly retrofits, but running junction boxes out to every parking space should be possible.

It can start small as well, maybe converting 10% of spaces and then expanding as adoption ramps up. You run into the grocery store for an hour, and you get a couple of miles. Park at work and get some more, then plug it in when you get home. I'm envisioning something like a retractable cable that you can pull out to your car, but maybe I'm overthinking the desire for theft of these cables.
It's also used in manufacturing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing
Ideally you would immediately shut down everything and prevent the virus from even entering. With rigorous border controls and contact tracing you can prevent it from ever taking root.

Having failed that, one option is keep everything open and let people die. Covid is not that deadly, so it's worthy of consideration.

Another possibility is to deliberately make sure the young and healthy are infected. Preferably in a staggered way so they can be given care.

You could also consider making camps for the frail where they can stay isolated from the rest of the world while everything blows over.
The Shell promo video is longer and has more details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xXmEHPFp8
Price doesn't even have to be fixed for it to be depraved!

Good time to remind everyone that Shkreli is in prison for financial crimes largely unrelated to the pharma side of his businesses, the rest of the pharma industry continued doing the same things as him as usual.
UK floating offshore wind 'could be subsidy-free by 2030'
Tbh any MOOC that "needs only 2-4 hours a week" is, by design, an entry level course and taking more of those won't help you progress.

On the other hand, you shouldn't lump together and dismiss all MOOCs as there are plenty of more advanced ones that will definitely make a difference. For example, 90% of MIT classes such as Intro to Statistics https://www.edx.org/course/fundamentals-of-statistics or CMU Deep Learning http://deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu/
There is so much going against them it's hard to see how they can make it work. Gamestop is a mall/strip mall operation which already means they are suffering from the massive over buildout of retail that ran wild until the crash of '08. They have a huge shopping mall presence, which means even for retail they are suffering more than most due to the cratering value of mall space in the US.

A large portion of their profit came from buying used game discs and reselling at a healthy markup. Digital distribution was already hurting that in a major way and COVID is only accelerating the decline of physical media.

Their plan has been the same as several other desperate mall-based stores like barnes and noble: keep the core product to draw people in, but pack the shelves with cheap high-margin "lifestyle" items like t-shirts and toys. I predict in 5 years they will be a corpse that's been picked clean by venture capital, existing as nothing more than a brand that can be slapped on some online game store.
Codementor.io is good for this. (most there are in the $60-100/hour range, and you can work in as small as 15 minute intervals)
Is that what's happening? My kinesis advantage (plugged into a Mac) sometimes gets stuck modifier keys and only unplugging it and plugging it back in fixes it. Seems worse than just dropping some keyup events, because it doesn't get unstuck if I hit the modifier key again.
> This begs the question: isn't "a restrictive OSS licence" not less "fully open source" than a more permissive licence like GPL, MIT or BSD?

We gonna change CrateDB fully to Apache License v2 ;) I would say that counts as a "more permissive" license.

> Is that really only because of some enterprises not liking GPL?

There are various reasons for the change. A big part is definitely also the spirit of many our contributors. We built CrateDB on open source software and also want to make the software available as open source. It also was planned for quite some time to be more open.
You're right. If it was just one drug, I'd think they were manufacturing it themselves. Apparently, they plan to have a single factory in 2022. Most likely, significantly all of their formulary will be copacked.
>What if the owner of the WiFi network wants you to connect but not your friends?

Then they should switch their network to a more complex authentication scheme. Multiple SSIDs, run 802.1x authentication (maybe with certs), MAC filtering maybe (bypassable sure, but will foil most casual users), run their own simple portal and shunt different classes onto different VLANs with different levels of isolation and traffic shaping, etc.

Ultimately if there is one password which then gets any device on, well that's that. Sharing has always been pretty trivial. If the owner of a network wants more fine grained and powerful security, all the tools exist to do that already, but they'll have to use them.
I'm sure he's dying to hear your analysis as to why he should've invested in another asset that would've made him less money.
For simple apps, you can get away with it.

If you are aiming for more than the basics, you'll run into trouble or impassable roadblocks.
I have attended a few presentations where Phil Dumas, founder of UniKey, described his experience winning an investment on Shark Tank. He explained that there were many unattractive terms in the agreement he received after the recording that made him ultimately decline the investment. My takeaway was that it doesn't matter what happens on the show, the real offer is more complicated.

(I have never seen the show, so I don't know how the offers are described. As an investor, I cannot imagine any offer that can be made verbally in the timespan of a television episode being meaningful.)
I’ve been buying my drugs for cash for a decade. I’m lucky, I’ve got 5 prescriptions that run me ~$1000. I started when I found that open market pricing was lower than my insurance (UHC Optum) pricing.
That’s what I get for skimming! Thanks for the correction. :)
Lack of human oversight.

Think of how frustrating it is to be unable to talk to a human at Facebook or Google because their AI closed your account without explanation.

Now imagine this is how everything works.
I went from playing 8 hours / day (well, per night truthfully) of Eve Online during high school to logging in every few months when I began college. The new environment of college made me too busy with "IRL" stuff.

I wouldn't say that social media is inherently bad because it can be addicting, because games aren't seen as inherently bad because they can be addicting.
This is really presuming people need to feel any kind of morals around healthcare or its costs to begin with. In America - barely enough people give a shit. If they did - we'd have universal healthcare. But because capitalism and strong individualistic spirit of Americans, there is no reason to care. Stonks must go up.

If you think anyone should feel any kind of moral obligation to not do this kind of stuff - you're just out of touch with American society. It's a survival of the strongest capitalistic machine and you get away with as much as you can.
This would be a great option that retailers could implement. A small deposit would give you a lottery entry, max one per person.

Any problems come to mind?
Here's the link to Economist article from 2005, which explains how IKEA uses non-profit status. I frequently buy from IKEA but used to think of it a well oiled corporation, and didn't know that it was "non-profit".

https://www.economist.com/business/2006/05/11/flat-pack-acco...
The thing is, Tesla wants to push their proprietary connector and have that be the dominant plug. Its their connector which will only be featured on Tesla cars. You really think Tesla would be going along with retrofitting in Europe if it wasn't for regulations? That they'd just willingly give up their market dominance position in charging network just because they feel like it and have some altruistic desire to embrace some future connector?

The industry standard answer to the Supercharger connector exists. Its available on multiple brands of cars today. The day for a single shared plug could be today if Elon says so. Retrofits for charging stations could start happening tomorrow. They could probably start cranking out CCS compatible cars for the US market within a quarter. But Tesla doesn't want a single shared plug, they want to own the market for chargers. They want to use the wide spread proprietary connector as a selling point to sell their cars. Which is exactly the concept in my "straw man" post. Its not really a straw man when its literally the exact scenario that's currently playing out in the market though, a car manufacturer using a dominant position in deploying chargers to push their cars. For evidence, see TFA. Do you think Tesla owners are installing J1772/CCS chargers at their homes and using adapters, or are they installing Tesla chargers? When someone sees an article like this, is that not convincing shoppers to look at Teslas first over other brands of electric cars? Seems less like a straw man and just taking a hard look at the objective reality of today.

Buying Tesla is supporting vendor lock-in. Its obvious to you that a single, open connector is better for the market and yet you'll continue to support a proprietary one.
This is more to draw attention to an unusual fact than any desire to "correct" you, but a single two-seater was built: http://www.airvectors.net/ava10_1.html#m7

It was a single prototype. One of my minor claims to fame in life is that I worked with a guy who was a test pilot, and actually flew in this aircraft.

Of course, your larger point stands however, and general there's no "type conversion" craft like you see in other two-seaters for this purpose. That said, if you had a solid flight background in other types of aircraft, it'd be unlikely that you'd have issues in the A-10. It's reportedly an easy craft to fly, there's little peculiarities that would give a pilot issues like you see in some high-performance craft. Straight wing, low landing speed, no built-in aerodynamic instabilities or anything like that.
I'm not usually a "market" guy, but some good competition in generic drug production might actually save us. Presumably, he sees large potential profits by aggressively undercutting the non-competitive overpriced generics. If that takes off, it could be a good thing overall.
Agree. Spare parts are the issue.

Without googling I believe there is another aircraft in the Navy that uses the same engine but it's been retired? If I recall correctly as well it's used in some business jets.
Privatization doesn't make costs plummet, competition does. In most cases, our healthcare system is not competitive even when it is private. e.g. emergency rooms. You will just go to the closest one. If you look at areas where healthcare actually is a competitive market, e.g. Lasik surgery, the situation is very different.
You are missing the "and dealt with". It needs to be dealt with.

Exposing it does not deal with it. It just gives it more air to spread. You actually need the dealing with part.
Large institutional investors aren't compelled to wait for Friday to exit; they can decide (and largely seem to have already decided) that the market isn't acting rationally and they'd better get out early. I suppose that's not an entirely impossible theory - in principle even the losses they've already closed out are wealth transfers from them to WSB buyers - but I'm very skeptical that it won't ultimately end up being retail traders holding the bag.
The creator's bio says he's a professional designer, so he probably designed it himself
This works for larger companies and larger teams, too.
I would separate here, Bezos is evil because he is just amassing wealth, avoids taxes and pretty much is focused only on himself.
Contrast that with Cuban who is also amassing wealth, but also is trying to do what is good for the community.
I like the blue icon more.

Also, only chromium is available in my distro's official repositories.
The fact is, the Javascript ecosystem is unmatched when it comes to very quickly creating frontend applications. Maybe another set of tools would have been better, but that doesn't really matter. This set of tools is what everyone uses, and a lot of effort and creativity goes into making js frontend development as smooth and fast as possible.

I often need to very quickly make internal services at my job and while I like working in other languages (and i do for longer term projects), those always take longer to set up and get working. In js with next you're up and running in less than 60 seconds and if you're doing crud stuff, most of the work is frankly done for you.
Nah I think I'll just keep rendering text in my 20M SLOC virtual machine thank you.
At least where I live in Maryland, being on "welfare" includes a cheap smart phone because a lot of jobs assume you have one for things like driving directions, getting signatures, taking pictures of receipts, etc.
My view is if people stop contacting you just because you dropped off of some social media platform, they weren't really friends to begin with. When I ditched Facebook about 10 years ago, I lost contact with a whole bunch of people who weren't really part of my life anyway, they were simply "names I recognized." On the other hand, it had no effect on my actual friendships or family connections. We all know how to contact each other and we do. My social life is probably better after dropping social media simply because I'm spending less time scrolling in front of a screen.